Python's JSON Format (with flask) format

Question

Ruby on Rails JSON is able to parse out curl calls in the following format:

name=test. It will interpret this as {"name": "test"}.

Python's JSON seems to take this as a JSON error (which it obviously is). Is there a way however, to take parse payload in the format of name=test? I'm using Python's JSON with Flask here.

This function to parse query strings might be useful perhaps? — jadkik94
– jadkik94, Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 20:23

codegeek · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-06 21:31:10Z

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If you are using flask, why not use jsonify

from flask import jsonify

@app.route('/do')
def do_whatever():
    return jsonify(name=test)

This will send a JSON response like this to the browser:

{
    "name": "test",
}

answered Aug 6, 2013 at 21:31

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darksky Over a year ago

This is useful, thanks but I want to modify the attributes first and then return them in a JSON format. This seems to return a response object. name=test is passed as payload/data via curl. How can I parse that data as "name":"test", or a json/dict??

darksky Over a year ago

Here's an example of a curl call: curl -X POST http://localhost:5000 -d name=somename -d age=15. I've done this in Rails before, but not sure how to in Flask.

superdud · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-06 20:17:09Z

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Try

fields = curl_str.split('=')
curl_json = { fields[0]:fields[1] }

answered Aug 6, 2013 at 20:17

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darksky Over a year ago

What if my request contained: curl .... -d name=test -d age=12 -d location=somecity? This won't parse out all the data, will it?

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